Unmanned Cessna Caravan: although there is little news about our Baikal, we will write about the American analog, which is undergoing "robotization" to operate in shared airspace. Reliable Robotics continues to turn the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan into an unmanned cargo aircraft. In October 2026, the company conducted test flights at Albuquerque Airport, New Mexico, demonstrating autonomous flights in complex civil and military airspace. Why the Caravan? The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan has a long history of use in regional cargo transport. The single-engine turboprop is designed to operate from small airfields, has good payload capacity, and is widely used on short routes. Reliable Robotics decided not to create a new machine from scratch, but to develop an autonomous control system for an already existing serial platform. Additional actuators, sensors, and communication equipment are installed on the aircraft. The Reliable Autonomy system allows you to perform a full flight cycle without direct control by the pilot from the cockpit. What has already been done? In October 2026, the Caravan completed a series of flights as part of the US eIPP program aimed at integrating advanced aviation technologies. The tests proved: automatic steering, automatic takeoff, flight along a given route, automatic landing, and remote control from a ground station. The aircraft flew with a safety pilot on board. The ground operator was located at the Reliable Robotics facility in California, more than 700 miles from the test airport. But the main thing is not just the demonstration of the autopilot: the company is exploring the possibility of operating an autonomous aircraft in real airspace, including interaction with air traffic control services. The main difficulty is security.

Unmanned Cessna Caravan: although there is little news about our Baikal, we will write about the American analog, which is undergoing "robotization" to operate in shared airspace. Reliable Robotics continues to turn the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan into an unmanned cargo aircraft. In October 2026, the company conducted test flights at Albuquerque Airport, New Mexico, demonstrating autonomous flights in complex civil and military airspace. Why the Caravan? The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan has a long history of use in regional cargo transport. The single-engine turboprop is designed to operate from small airfields, has good payload capacity, and is widely used on short routes. Reliable Robotics decided not to create a new machine from scratch, but to develop an autonomous control system for an already existing serial platform. Additional actuators, sensors, and communication equipment are installed on the aircraft. The Reliable Autonomy system allows you to perform a full flight cycle without direct control by the pilot from the cockpit. What has already been done? In October 2026, the Caravan completed a series of flights as part of the US eIPP program aimed at integrating advanced aviation technologies. The tests proved: automatic steering, automatic takeoff, flight along a given route, automatic landing, and remote control from a ground station. The aircraft flew with a safety pilot on board. The ground operator was located at the Reliable Robotics facility in California, more than 700 miles from the test airport. But the main thing is not just the demonstration of the autopilot: the company is exploring the possibility of operating an autonomous aircraft in real airspace, including interaction with air traffic control services. The main difficulty is security.